Structural analogy between Marx and Freud ironically conserves a European-centered Marxism
Evidence
(To draw an adequate analogy between the emergence of the moneyform and the Oedipal scenario is also to conserve the European Marx. It is in my political interest to join forces with those Marxists who would rescue Marxism from its European provenance. It is not surprising that in a later book Goux argues for a kinship between Marx and Freud in terms of their Jewish heritage. This argument may well be cogent, but it should not be seen as clinching the question of the historical differential in the geopolitical situation of Marxism and psychoanalysis.) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 935
Categorization
- XREF: Spivak’s politicization of theoretical method—that even the form of an analogy serves geopolitical interest—echoes her later claim that the word ‘strategic’ in strategic essentialism is itself a hard-won political qualification. Connects to Foucault’s race-struggle histories. — connects to: Modernism’s insistence on West-versus-rest difference makes Marxism itself a modernism